The company I work for, Bishop-Wisecarver, just picked a couple local high school teams to sponsor for the 2012 FIRST robotics competition. We're super stoked, so obviously we had to blog about it ... read more about that here!

I'm a little late in posting this, but just in case you missed it, here's a link to our weekly list of top 10 Twitter posts. Lots of cool articles this time, including an interview with an astronaut, one on how manufacturing issues are heating up the presidential campaign trail and a blog about the implications of those faster-than-light neutrinos that has the science world abuzz. …

A good friend of mine . . . who shall remain nameless . . . . just got out of a "come to Jesus" meeting because a major change to an important fixture in their product was missed. Not a good day to be him . . .

It's scary to admit, but missing a poorly documented change can happen to anyone (to a varying degree of severity). It all comes down to your processes, and how tightly you're managing changes to your product with ECO/ECRs.

Forsta Filters, a Los Angeles-based manufacturer of water filtration systems used in industrial, municipal and irrigation applications, has installed one of its self-cleaning systems at a 70-year-old company specializing in protective packaging materials for fresh fruits and vegetables.…

I sat down with one of our product engineers Friday to discuss the different ways our customers can mount a DualVee guide wheel to an application. He gave me the basic rundown but also touched on a few creative applications thought up by some BWC customers.…